Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Mobile 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points
1200 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2340 points
2572 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

858 points
864 points
0.70% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

820 points
831 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.09 points
53% significantly higher Blender score
15.05 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

908th of 1,089
902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-6600U vs Athlon Silver 3050U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6600U beats the Athlon Silver 3050U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon Silver 3050U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-6600U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6600U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon Silver 3050U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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